... br> One thing for certain; east (Orlando) or west (Anaheim), they both have huge crowds. The nice thing about the California parks is that they are all together including Downtown Disney where at Disney World you have to take some form of transportation to get from one park to the other.

We ventured over to California Adventure - right across the way from Disneyland. California Adventure ...

... but we figured a Friday is basically a weekend anyway, so let's take a day off and go Saturday. So we did. Friday we did some shopping (scooters for the girls for the remainder of the trip) including a big outlet area (The Outlets at Orange). Double bonus was that there was a play park in there for the girls to enjoy (for HOURS) while we took turns shopping. Fabo day that ended in the hotel pool!! Day 3 ...

So, we got up, went and had a very hotel breakfast - cereal, cinnamon buns that you can nuke, toast, fruit...you really shouldn't complain when it's included, but it was underwhelming compared to some of the other free breakfasts where you could make waffles and there was hot food like eggs/bacon/sausage...oh well, but we're going to DISNEY!

... tell you which Disney character you are most like based on a series of questions. Not surprisingly, it turns out that Josh is most like Mickey Mouse. (I’m like Mrs Incredible just for the record!).

Then by chance we found the 3D Muppet movie over the road, and by the time we could go in, luckily the others had joined us. This was a lot of fun. As well as the action happening on the screen, (some of it seemingly right in ...